Er, does any of that count as rock music? Up here, "rock night" is code for "hair metal night". Which of those tracks invites a circle of spotty oiks, each with one foot on a stool in the middle, doing air guitar while throwing their hair back and forth?

I'm after a copy of their album To Hell with the Devil for the wall. The cover graphic is quite priceless. One version has a picture of the band, portrayed as angels (nude, but with their modesty tastefully preserved by wisps of cloud), casting Lucifer out of heaven. As he falls through the skies, you can see that . . . they have broken his guitar!

That's almost a fair description of some of the sets at WUS. There are also some very odd things in other sets there. I think it would be fair to say that WUS has the broadest definition of 'rock' of any event I've ever been to.

The 'rock night' that I go to in Dunstable on the other hand, is actually a heavy metal night, and anyone wanting to hear a bit of Queen or Sabbath would be sorely disappointed (most weeks anyway). It tends towards Pantera, System of a Down, Disturbed, and other fairly noisy efforts.

The Dunstable event also have the cheek to have 'goth' on the list of music styles played there. When I prodded the guy who runs it (friend of mine) about this, he said "Well we might play Sisters of Mercy... Temple of Love". In perfect sync with me saying the same thing. He had the grace to look embarrassed :)

RockSoc generally defines rock music as anything with guitars... the official remit of WUS is to play music which is not heard elsewhere in Cambridge, and of interest to its members (or somthing like that), hence the DJs are all members.I've played sets of Rock and Roll before now, it (generally) went down well. My 1/2 hour of Power Electronics and Industrial didn't go down so well though...WUS did used to be very much thrash and a bit of NWOBHM, then started getting a bit of Nu-metal, but the current WUS officer is a fan of Slayer, Mayhem, Sonic Youth, King Crimson, Silverchair and much much more, and has tried to get a more mixed night.

Some of them, and they seemed interested. A couple of people wanted to know what "the song after the Stooges" was, so they recognised S&D as well as liking the sound of Swans. The Laibach got a few people up, and a couple of people said they liked the version of Supernaut, so . . . a mixed result on knowing, but they seemed very interested in hearing new stuff. They're a good bunch, but then I could have told you that already.